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Today’s Shiretoko (Firefox 3.1 codename) nightly introduces support for simple web elements transformations as CSS extensions originally proposed and implemented by the WebKit project.
The extensions include move, rotate, skew, scale and matrix operations for almost every web page element except plugins and popup menus among others. In the example below, Google’s main page and Wikipedia English home page have been embedded in transformed internal frames: moved, rotated and skewed. I also added some experimental transparency in the mix for a better effect.
You can try this code in today’s Firefox nightly:
<iframe style="width:500px; height:500px; -moz-transform:translate(100px, 50px) rotate(30deg) skew(20deg);" src="http://google.com"></iframe>
<iframe style="width:500px; height:500px; -moz-transform:translate(50px, 80px) rotate(-50deg) skew(-20deg); -moz-opacity:.70;" src="http://wikipedia.org"></iframe>
As said, these are still experimental features that haven’t been standardized yet (hence the -moz prefix), but as Keith Schwarz -the Mozilla intern largely responsible for the implementation- notes, now that there are already two implementations (Firefox and Safari) it should speed things up.
“It will be interesting to see what uses developers find for CSS transforms. Much of the functionality once reserved for plugins can now be directly integrated into CSS and Javascript, which hopefully will help web developers create more graphically exciting pages.”, added Keith in his announcement post.
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September 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am
w00t!
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September 15th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
What nightly did you use? I tried with the most recent one (Sept 15th) and nothing happens.
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September 15th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
This is really awesom, I’ll wait untill I see turned webpages :)
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September 15th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Can I request a test in speed using a combination of Javascript, CSS, and HTML where an object is drawn on the screen, say a green square. It is then translated 100px down the screen, 1px at a time as it goes from the start to finish (heck, make it more beautiful and include start and finish pictures. How long does it take to do this?
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September 16th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Why does firefox have so few buttons on the screenshot? They didn’t decide to merge the stop and the reload button together did they? :\
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ExecSeptember 16th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Rightclick toolbar -> Customize
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Percy CabelloSeptember 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Nope. I’m using this userChrome.css tweak: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2006/09/merge-firefox-reloadstop-buttons-extensionless/
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September 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I certainly hope this ‘feature’ can be turned OFF. The last thing I want is eye-bugging effects every time I click a link because some site developer thought it would be cool….
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September 20th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Good idea and perfectly works from firefox developers..
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October 14th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
percy, do you know if Firefox team have plans to fix the basic and old printing bugs? for example: in Linux this page “print preview” shows only 1 page:
http://creator.zoho.com/marketplace/
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Percy CabelloOctober 14th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
As far as I know there are no big plans for printing improvements in Firefox 3.1, which is just a pity. Even on Windows, the main platform I work on, it has some serious limitations. If I recall correctly, the problem is there is a lack of developers with the necessary deep knowledge of the printing code to fix it.
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October 16th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Hello,
How to apply transforms by using javaScript ?
I tried .style.transform=’scale(0.5)’ and .style.mozTransform=’scale(0.5)’ without success
(for instance, in webKit, using .style.webkitTransform=’scale(0.5)’ works)
Thanks
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